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The Briar Seat: A Dark Royal Romantasy of Cursed Thrones, Forbidden Love, and a Queen Who Refuses to Bleed for Power
Paperback
Series: The Curse of Glass Kings, Book 3
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 508
Weight: 1.48
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The throne wanted silence.
The vow wanted blood.
Oriana Crownmere chose something more dangerous than either.
The war for Glasshaven has begun, and the Salt-and-Silver Vow is no longer buried beneath court ritual and royal lies. After exile, betrayal, failed crowns, and the awakening of the Briar Seat, Oriana Crownmere is no longer only the cursekeeper the realm tried to use. She is the woman the old throne remembers, the claimant King Halric Ash fears, and the one person powerful enough to decide what the vow is allowed to become.
But victory will not come through blood alone.
Beside her stands Evander Blackmere, the enemy prince who has chosen witness over conquest, love over inherited vengeance, and Oriana over every throne his name could claim. Their bond has become public, dangerous, and impossible to separate from the fate of the kingdom. Every touch is evidence. Every vow is a weapon. Every choice could become law.
As Halric makes his final move and the Ash Coronet demands one last price, Oriana must face the truth beneath Glasshaven's oldest curse: breaking the vow is not enough. Someone must decide who holds its power after the war.
The crown can still command fear.
The Briar Seat can still demand blood.
And Oriana must become the queen the realm was taught to fear, without becoming the kind of ruler who taught it fear in the first place.
The Briar Seat is Book Three and the final book in The Curse of Glass Kings, a dark adult royal romantasy trilogy filled with cursed crowns, throne war, forbidden love, ancient magic, political betrayal, morally grey romance, and a hard-won ending where love stands beside power, not beneath it.
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